Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by E. J. Banfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the 20th century, E. J. Banfield and his wife moved to Dunk Island for his mental and physical health. They lived there for 25 years, and the book was written after they'd been on the island for about a decade. It is an incredible island history with a comprehensive and captivating depiction of life on a tropical island in the early 1900s. It contains descriptions of flora, fauna, and lifestyle, as well as some stories about and observations of the island's original inhabitants.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Edmund James Banfield and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Edmund James Banfield and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile reprint of an edition first published in London in 1908. Includes the original text and all 53 original illustrations and map (some were omitted from editions and reprints since 1908). This is Banfield's story of life on Dunk Island in the early 20th century with details of the island's geography, history, flora and fauna. With an introduction by Banfield's biographer, Michael Noonan. The English-born author's other books include 'My Tropic Isle' and 'Tropic Days'.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber Being a Treatise on Personal Sanctuary written by E. J. Banfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Banfield E. J. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by J. E. Banfield and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literary Digest International Book Review written by Clifford Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Digest International Book Review written by Clifford Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand written by Faye H. Christenberry and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a research guide to the literatures of Australia and New Zealand. It contains references to many different types of resources, paying special attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting research on the literatures of these two distinct but closely connected countries.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by E. J. Banfield and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one locality was favourably considered ere good fortune decided to send us hither to spy out the land. A camp-out on the shore of then unnamed Brammo Bay--a holiday-making party--and the result of the first day's exploration decided a revolutionary change in the lives of two seriously-minded persons. A year after, a lease of the best portion of the island having been obtained in the meanwhile, we came for good.Wholly uninhabited, entirely free from traces of the mauling paws of humanity, lovely in its mantle of varied foliage, what better sphere for the exercise of benign autocracy could be desired? Here was virgin country, 20 miles from the nearest port--sad and neglected Cardwell cut off from the mainland by more than 2 miles of estranging ocean, and yet lying in the track of small coastal steamers--here all our pet theories might serenely develop.
Download or read book Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Edmund James Banfield and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Beachcomber by Edmund James Banfield
Download or read book The Reef A Passionate History The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change written by Iain McCalman and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new adventure into the reef to reveal how our shifting perceptions of the natural world have shaped this extraordinary seascape. Showcasing the lives of twenty individuals spanning more than two centuries, The Reef highlights our profound desire to conquer, understand, embrace, and ultimately save the world's most complex ocean ecosystem. Opening with the story of Captain James Cook, who sailed unknowingly into the southwest entrance of this vast network of coral outcroppings, McCalman shows how Cook spent months navigating this treacherous underwater labyrinth, struggling to keep his crew alive and his ship afloat, sparring with deceptive shoals and wary native islanders. Through a series of dramatic tales from intrepid explorers, unwitting castaways, inquisitive naturalists, enchanted artists, and impassioned environmentalists who have collectively shaped our ideas about the Great Barrier Reef, McCalman demonstrates how this grand natural wonder of the world was built as much by human imagination as by the industrious, beautiful creatures of the sea. A romantic, historically significant book and a deeply personal journey into the heart of a marine environment in peril, The Reef powerfully captures the delicate relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Download or read book The Beach written by Robert Drewe and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Drewe, internationally acclaimed writer, writes here about the quintessential Australian experience. Drewe looks at the sunny, salty sexiness of the beach that first enticed the crusading Mr William Gocher into the ocean at Manly in 1903, defying authorities in his neck-to-knee bathing costume. We’ve come a long way from sunbathing in stockings and pantaloons to the unabashed display of sun-kissed bodies of all shapes and sizes at any beach in the country today. But the beach also has a dark side as a place of tragedy, violence and danger, a place where sharks attack prone surfers and prime ministers disappear. Drewe’s lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia’s most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes―a favourite boat, a capsicum-strewn beach, a summer holiday with teenagers and an unwelcome great white. This is a book for Australians dreaming of the beach―that is, those of us not there right now.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Edmund James Banfield and published by Plain Label Books. This book was released on 1913 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing the Australian Beach written by Elizabeth Ellison and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Australian Beach is the first book in fifteen years to explore creative and cultural representations of this iconic landscape, and how writers and scholars have attempted to understand and depict it. Although the content chiefly focuses on Australia, the beach as both a location and idea resonates deeply with readers around the world. This edited collection includes three sections. Forms of Beach Writing examines the history of beach writing in Australia and in a number of forms: screenwriting, social media writing, and food writing. In turn, Multiplicities of Australian Beach Writing examines how forms of writing—poetry, travel writing, horror film, and memoir—engage with some specific beaches in Australia. And, finally, Reading the Beach as a Text considers how the beach itself functions in cultural narratives: how we walk the beach; the revealing story of beach soccer; and the design and use of ocean baths. Given its scope, the collection offers a unique resource for scholars of Australian culture and creative writing, and for all those interested in Australian beaches.
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
